With the Lamb Offal Loaf recipe, we virtually return to Romania for the third time, after trying one of the many types of “ciorba” (the ciorba de perisoare), the Romanian soup prepared with vegetables and meat, and after the Christmas dessert kozonach, we move on to an Orthodox Easter recipe in Romania.
The Lamb Offal Loaf is indeed a dish mostly consumed during the Easter period.
It is a meatloaf made with lamb offal, spring onions, herbs, eggs, and bread soaked in milk.
In the past, the offal was cooked in the animal’s stomach (today it’s not so easy to find it!) and this is very reminiscent of haggis, the typical Scottish dish, or the English faggots, offal meatballs, but made with pork.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 6People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Romanian
- Seasonality: All seasons, Easter
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs lamb offal (heart, lungs, liver, heart, spleen, kidneys)
- 1 lamb stomach net (optional)
- 1 slice bread
- as needed milk
- as needed parsley
- as needed dill
- 1 tbsp cream
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 eggs
- as needed salt and black pepper
- 4 spring onions
- 2 carrots
Tools
- 1 Loaf pan
Preparation
First, prepare a broth with the carrots and 2 spring onions and boil the lamb offal in it for about 30 minutes.
When the offal is cooked, drain them from the broth and let them cool.
Then put them in a mixer together with the 2 spring onions, the slice of bread (previously soaked in milk and squeezed), 2 eggs, parsley, dill, cream, salt, and plenty of black pepper. Blend.
Take a rectangular pan and, if you can get it from your butcher, wash the net that wraps the offal and spread it on the bottom of the pan, lightly oil it, and put half of the mixture.
Place the hard-boiled eggs, cut in half, in the center. Then cover with the remaining mixture.Bake in the oven at 356°F (180°C) for about 30 minutes.
Serve it sliced with fresh onions, radishes, pickles, and olives.
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